9/15 Then she spoke aloud: "If that which you say be true and my brothers are dead--there are yet Douglases. Our cousins will deliver us." "Your cousins have entered into your possessions," jeered the hag; "it is indeed a likely thing that they will desire your return to Scotland in order to rob them of that which is their own." "We are not afraid," said the little maid, stoutly; "there are many in the land of the Scots who would gladly die to help us." "Aye, that is it. Three of them died yester-even, torn to pieces by my lord's wolves. Fine, swift, four-footed guardians of the Castle of Machecoul--La Meffraye's friends! And one young cock below there of the same gang hath gone even now to my lord's chamber. |